Social Protection and Informal Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa : Lived Realitie…

ABSTRACT The promotion of social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa happens in a context where informal labour markets constitute the norm, and where most workers live uncertain livelihoods with very limited access to official social protection. The dominant social protection agenda and the associated literature come with an almost exclusive focus on donor and state programmes even if their cove…

Area-wide Integrated Pest Management : Development and Field Application

Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, including non-target species, air, water and soil. The extensive reliance on insecticide use reduces biodiversity, contributes to pollinator decline, destroys habitat, and threatens endangered species. This book offers a more effective application of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) a…

Valuing Nature : The Roots of Transformation

When a group of liberal arts students embark on a university assignment about the natural environment, no one could have quite prepared them for the bewildering array of questions and provocations to confront them in their task. What starts out as an earnest attempt to understand nature in the modern world, turns into a philosophical and practical tangle that only a good transdisciplinary educa…

Globalisation, Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication

Kumpulan yang disunting ini menyelidiki linguistik globalisasi, geopolitik, dan gender dalam budaya tempat kerja dalam berbagai latar internasional kontemporer yang berbeda. Bab-babnya meneliti bagaimana isu globalisasi, gender, dan geopolitik memengaruhi para profesional dalam berbagai konteks tempat kerja, termasuk pekerja rumah tangga; profesional TI; guru, staf universitas; insinyur; pengus…

Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities : Global Perspec…

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Our extractive age : expressions of violence and resistance

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Pompeian Peristyle Gardens

ABSTRACT This book examines how Pompeian peristyle gardens were utilized to represent the socioeconomic status of Roman homeowners, introducing fresh perspectives on how these spaces were designed, used, and perceived. Pompeian Peristyle Gardens provides a novel understanding of how the domus was planned, utilized, and experienced through a critical examination of all Pompeian peristyles â€â€¦

Digitale Transformation

Dieses Open Access-Buch gibt eine erweiterte Einführung in die Grundlagen und Charakteristika sowie auch Risiken und Chancen der digitalen Transformation. Anhand von ausführlichen Fallstudien branchenführender Unternehmen werden aktuelle technologische Trends sowie Auswirkungen auf die digitale Geschäftsmodellentwicklung und den Wettbewerb aus Sicht von IT-Entscheidern erörtert. Die Ergebn…

Emerging Technologies

This monograph investigates a multitude of emerging technologies including 3D printing, 5G, blockchain, and many more to assess their potential for use to further humanity’s shared goal of sustainable development. Through case studies detailing how these technologies are already being used at companies worldwide, author Sinan Küfeoğlu explores how emerging technologies can be used to enhanc…

Governing the Sustainable Development Goals

This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, but rather as a broader epistemic system through which global public policy is produced. This book focuses on the role of international organisations in shaping and implem…